THEOLOGIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does theologian mean? 

• THEOLOGIAN (noun)
  The noun THEOLOGIAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology

  Familiarity information: THEOLOGIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THEOLOGIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer

Hypernyms ("theologian" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theologian"):

Doctor; Doctor of the Church ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)

eschatologist (a theologian who specializes in eschatology)

futurist (a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future)

presentist (a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) are being fulfilled at the present time)

preterist (a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled)

Church Father; Father; Father of the Church ((Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom)

Instance hyponyms:

Cardinal Newman; John Henry Newman; Newman (English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890))

Hooker; Richard Hooker (English theologian (1554-1600))

Melanchthon; Philipp Melanchthon; Philipp Schwarzerd (German theologian and Luther's successor as leader of the Reformation in Germany (1497-1560))

Luther; Martin Luther (German theologian who led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds (1483-1546))

John Knox; Knox (Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572))

John Chrysostom; St. John Chrysostom ((Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407))

Eusebius Hieronymus; Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Hieronymus; Jerome; Saint Jerome; St. Jerome ((Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420))

Cornelis Jansen; Cornelius Jansenius; Jansen (a Dutch Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638))

Ignatius of Loyola; Loyola; Saint Ignatius of Loyola; St. Ignatius of Loyola (Spaniard and Roman Catholic theologian and founder of the Society of Jesus; a leading opponent of the Reformation (1491-1556))

Hopkins; Mark Hopkins (United States educator and theologian (1802-1887))

Huldreich Zwingli; Ulrich Zwingli; Zwingli (Swiss theologian whose sermons began the Reformation in Switzerland (1484-1531))

Niebuhr; Reinhold Niebuhr (United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971))

Origen (Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism; his work was later condemned as unorthodox (185-254))

Edward Bouverie Pusey; Edward Pusey; Pusey (English theologian who (with John Henry Newman and John Keble) founded the Oxford movement (1800-1882))

Fausto Paolo Sozzini; Faustus Socinus; Socinus (Italian theologian who argued against Trinitarianism (1539-1604))

Emanuel Svedberg; Emanuel Swedenborg; Svedberg; Swedenborg (Swedish theologian (1688-1772))

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; Tertullian (Carthaginian theologian whose writing influenced early Christian theology (160-230))

Paul Johannes Tillich; Paul Tillich; Tillich (United States theologian (born in Germany) (1886-1965))

Isaac Watts; Watts (English poet and theologian (1674-1748))

John Wickliffe; John Wiclif; John Wyclif; John Wycliffe; Wickliffe; Wiclif; Wyclif; Wycliffe (English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384))

Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf; Zinzendorf (German theologian (1700-1760))

Baeda; Beda; Bede; Saint Baeda; Saint Beda; Saint Bede; St. Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; the Venerable Bede ((Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735))

Abelard; Peter Abelard; Pierre Abelard (French philosopher and theologian; lover of Heloise (1079-1142))

Ambrose; Saint Ambrose; St. Ambrose ((Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397))

Aquinas; Saint Thomas; Saint Thomas Aquinas; St. Thomas; St. Thomas Aquinas; Thomas Aquinas ((Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology; presented philosophical proofs of the existence of God (1225-1274))

Arius (a Greek who was a Christian theologian active in Alexandria and who was declared a heretic for his doctrines about God (which came to be known as Arianism) (256?-336))

Arminius; Jacob Harmensen; Jacobus Arminius; Jakob Hermandszoon (Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609))

Arnold of Brescia (Italian theologian who censured the worldly possessions of monks and the temporal power of bishops and was condemned for dogmatic errors by the Second Lateran Council (early 12th century))

Athanasius; Athanasius the Great; Saint Athanasius; St. Athanasius ((Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373))

Augustine; Augustine of Hippo; Saint Augustine; St. Augustine ((Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430))

Barth; Karl Barth (Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968))

Basil; Basil of Caesarea; Basil the Great; St. Basil; St. Basil the Great ((Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379))

Gregory; Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory of Nazianzen; St. Gregory of Nazianzen ((Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-391))

Bellarmine; Bellarmino; Cardinal Bellarmine; Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine (Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621))

Bonhoeffer; Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German Lutheran theologian and pastor whose works concern Christianity in the modern world; an active opponent of Nazism, he was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and later executed (1906-1945))

Bultmann; Rudolf Bultmann; Rudolf Karl Bultmann (a Lutheran theologian in Germany (1884-1976))

Calvin; Jean Caulvin; Jean Cauvin; Jean Chauvin; John Calvin (Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564))

Duns Scotus; John Duns Scotus (Scottish theologian who was very influential in the Middle Ages (1265-1308))

Eck; Johann Eck; Johann Maier; Johann Maier Eck (a German Roman Catholic theologian who was an indefatigable opponent of Martin Luther (1486-1543))

Eckhart; Johannes Eckhart; Meister Eckhart (German Roman Catholic theologian and mystic (1260-1327))

Edwards; Jonathan Edwards (American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758))

Desiderius Erasmus; Erasmus; Geert Geerts; Gerhard Gerhards (Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536))

 Context examples 

Mr. Summerlee, the veteran Professor of Comparative Anatomy, rose among the audience, a tall, thin, bitter man, with the withered aspect of a theologian.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)